OECD welcomes Finland's development policy, and urges delivery of promises

11-Dec-2007

The Development Assistance Committee found Finland to be a committed development co-operation actor. Finland has signed up to the Paris Declaration, but needs to make sure that its proposals to make aid more effective and to increase coherence among policies that affect development bring real results. The Committee also urged Finland to stick to its target of allocating 0.7% of its gross national income to development assistance by 2015.

Policy Paper on Anti-Corruption

29-Nov-2007

A just-published Policy Paper that maps out the collective action challenges and issues that donors must address to fight corruption.

Aid For Trade at a Glance 2007

23-Nov-2007

This joint OECD/WTO report provides an overview of what is - and what is not -happening in the delivery of Aid-for-Trade, including current flows, existing gaps, and where improvements need to be made. It will also create incentives - by shining a “spotlight” on the issues - to deliver more and better Aid-for-Trade, and to strengthen mutual accountability between partner countries and donors.

Ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment

18-Jul-2007

How can development co-operation best contribute to promoting pro-poor growth? Decision makers can make better choices when they have evidence on the likely distributional impacts of their interventions. POVNET has developed the ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment approach to help donors and their developing country partners better assess impacts and outcomes of their policies, programmes and projects. For a short overview on the approach please see the Ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment Brief.

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

04-Jul-2007

This report with tables and charts summarizes statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by each DAC member in 2004-2005. See also individual donor charts .

DAC Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development

31-May-2007

On 15 February 2007, the DAC for the first time approved a policy paper devoted exclusively to the promotion and integration of human rights in development.

African Economic Outlook 2007 : launch date is announced

26-Mar-2007

The 2007 edition of the African Economic Outlook (AEO 2007) will be launched for the media on 14 May at the OECD Forum in Paris. The 2007 edition, covering 31 African countries, provides a special focus on water and sanitation.

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors

15-Mar-2007

Why has growth been more successful in reducing poverty in some countries than in others? How can poor women and men best participate in, contribute to and benefit from the growth process? Why is pro-poor growth important and what can donors do to promote it? This book provides policy guidance to donors on these issues, based on recent work of the DAC. It pays special attention to the role of private sector developmentagriculture and infrastructure in pro-poor growth -- areas that were neglected by many donors during the 1990s but are currently receiving renewed attention.

DACNews: Aid increases need to be stepped up - March 2007

01-Mar-2007

The “headline” figure for DAC ODA rose to $107 billion in 2005, easily a record level.  Yet the latest DAC simulation of future ODA levels suggests that increases need to accelerate if members are to reach their announced targets for 2010 - find out why in the latest 2006 Development Co-operation Report; outgoing Director Michael Roeskau looks back at major events which have made us rethink the way we do aid. And much more...

2007 Edition of the Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows

27-Feb-2007

This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2001-2005.

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